The Bladder is an Important Organ

[caesar ursic]

(FYI:  January is Bladder Health and Injury Prevention Month.)

Two question for the group:

1. When do you specifically screen for bladder injuries in your
polytraumatized (blunt) patients?


2. How do you do it?
A. CT scan.  Do you clamp the urinary catheter first?  Do you instill
contrast into the bladder prior to scanning?
B. Retrograde cystogram (i.e. instilling contrast via the bladder catheter
and shooting plain films)?
C. Other?

Many Thanks, etc.

C Ursic, MD
Santa Fe, USA